şekavet

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Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ottoman Turkish شقاوت (şekavet), from Arabic شَقَاوَة (šaqāwa), verbal noun of شَقِيَ (šaqiya, “to suffer”). cognate with Azerbaijani şəqavət (“misery”) and dialectical Azerbaijani şəqqəvət (“dignity”).

Noun[edit]

şekavet (definite accusative şekaveti, plural şekavetler) (archaic)

  1. villainy
    • 1929 December 24, “Beş haydut [Five bandits]”, in Yarın, page 1:
      Bu haydut tekrar şekavete başlamış ve 300 den fazla koyun ve saireyi gaspetmiş, köylere musallat olmuştur.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. misery, wretchedness

Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şekavet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شقاوت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1130
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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